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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from Durie, a place in Fife, named from Gaelic dobhar ‘stream’ + the locative suffix -ach.
  • French (Walloon) : variant of Dury, from Walloon ri ‘stream’.

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